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Wilson on a good team with a good quarterback would be F'n bonkers. No way EVER should talent be punished at contract time because those around him are bad. Kid, you earned it. Let's hope the team does right be you under center...eventually.

I think it sometimes stifles or arrests the talent that you do have. I also think that there is potential for it to be inorganic or unnatural. In other words it can seem forced. Additionally, although it is disciplined I still think it neuters Josh's individual superlatives at times. I very much like Josh having the knowledge of what has happened lately, but I am also a big believer in "Let Josh Be Josh."

He is going to BALL this year, Augie. Oh he wants it so bad I am not even sure a river of demons could stop him from the second last thing* on his check list: hoisting the Lombardi. (* Children)

Era, even before I saw this thread I thought 51 grabs, 3 a game, would be reasonable for him. Along with your yards and TDs I think it could be perceived as a successful second season in a team where everybody eats.* (* Personally, I am not a fan of the "everybody eats" mantra)

Improved: Coleman, Kincaid and Milano in maybe in his last great LB year. Regressed: You guys are gutless...it is Allen. He has been lights out awesome for so long like an inhabitant of Mount Olympus. Normally I would say the meta-human keeps it going, but...he is married now. As one of the great boxing trainers of all time, Mickey, said, "Women. Weaken. Knees." If he is able to keep us and Mrs. Allen happy in 2025 his image should be carved into Football Mount Rushmore in time for an unveiling next March. Go Bills!

Logic...intentionally done on my part. I knew it was going to be SOMEBODY...and no lie, you were on the SOMEBODY list! 😄

Yeah, this is not a bad move by Cleveland. I take no umbrage with the Browns on this one.

Man...I kind of think I want Ty Johnson to retire a Bill. This role that he plays is easily playable into his early 30s.

Sorry for the delayed response, BF619. This is my first "real" time really back here since the playoff loss. I need that time to decompress.

Amen, Moon. Thank you. I am so with you on that. This game and the thought of it has not phased me one bit.

I remember with this regime when Singletary got hurt his rookie year her was "day-to-day" and we didn't see him for 3 weeks. It has happened multiple times since. Oh, don't get me wrong, I am not jumping on the team one bit. Especially when it comes to their players' health. It's just the moment they announced he was day to day I promised those around me he just wasn't going to play against the Chiefs so don't get your hopes. I'll go a step further and I hope I am wrong...he will be questionable, even for the Super Bowl.

I like the move. I think he is a good coach for where they are at this point. If not him, then tell me who else of some skill at the position was going to take THAT job.

Sensei, please let me know what plaza your Dojo is in, and whether there is a taco place next door so I can grab lunch. 👍

Can someone please explain to me why the hell I am not nervous about this game?!

I used to dangle an onion off a string on my belt, which was the fashion at the time...Anyways. I need my shawl and my hot soup.

The age I was the last time the Bills went to the Super Bowl...24 If you look in my post it has a couple of quotes, including major who said he was 18 the last time the Bills made it.

I was 24.

I had the Bills by 10 last week and I was not nervous once before the game. The boys actually let me down a bit by taking their foot off the gas. That is risky. They do that a lot and hopefully it won't cost them at some point in the future. I feel the same this week. Bills 31-21. That does not mean we can't lose. If we do, then heck it happens especially against the Chiefs. The thing is I just feel real comfortable about this game. Go Bills

The day before the '95 road playoff game against Pittsburgh, after we beat Miami at home the previous week, Bruce Smith came down with the flu and did not play. ...yeah, that didn't help.

I wanted Lamar or Allen. I would have been happy with Lamar. I am absolutely, positively sick and tired of this being a Josh Allen thing, alone. I don't see this between Lamar and Burrow. I don't see this between Lamar and Mahomes. You only see the littlest bit between Burrow and Mahomes. However, you get double barrel doses between Allen and Lamar. ...and you get it between Allen and Burrow... ..and you most certainly get it between Allen and Mahomes. and the "this" and the "between" is invariably, "Quarterback (insert name here) is way better than Josh Allen. I don't know why Allen doesn't kill himself already, or at least retire"* * I added that last part.

I know it is terrible, but I am so here for it. Go Wiley, go, and also this just some added sauce for the goose during Championship week. *that doesn't make any sense! Spock said that meaning the odds would be even, blah-blah, blah* Yes, that's why I said it. The more non sensical minutia outside, the less BS inside.

I'm honored and humbled by your comments, QBB. Thank you. I wish I were a better writer, and focused more. This was (and is) slightly edited in the last hour because it was written initially over the course of 20 minutes based upon something I felt at the moment. ...However, I guess what I "felt" had been brewing for 52 years. Go Bills.

I am not sure that they can, Mike, as they took one of our 9 home games the last go around. I hope I am not wrong.

The Bills should have 1 home preseason game next year, based upon the rotating schedules which gave us 2 this year. They also will have 9 regular seasons games, and no out-of-country contests this time around. If they get home field advantage and/or the 2 seed they will likely see two home playoff games, barring anything unusual should they make it all the way as a three or four seed. That leaves the old girl, Rich-Ralph-New Era-Highmark Stadium, with 12 games left before she calls it day for the last time. She'll be 53 years young by her last go around. For many of us we saw our first ball game there. For some of us we saw a player who was famous before he was infamous, juiced and electric and before our own eyes carrying a football like we had never seen anyone do before. We saw the unbeatable on Monday Night Raiders get beat on Monday Night under her lights and under the stars. We were there when The Streak ended in 1980 with the plea from one endzone banner simply reading "Please." We were there when Fergy and Hooks made Big Ben into something more than just a clock in England. We were there at the start of the playoff magic in 1988 against Houston, and there at mostly its end with our Hall of Fame QB against Jacksonville in '96. We suffered through back to back 2-14 seasons in the mid 80s that gave way to our team's second golden era of the 90s, and we were there for the suffering, and yes surviving, of The Drought. And although her halls were too narrow, and bathrooms too cramped and too few, and her foundations cracked and leaky, and her seating numbers dwindled for the sake of the new and changing NFL, she today shines brighter than ever for the third golden era as the sounds of Mr. Brightside echo throughout her shell. ...and in 12 games we say good bye to her forever. All memories, good or bad. For those of us who've been there, with friends and family alike...with their mom who took them by herself to see a 1979 late season game in the cold all because she loved her son and she knew how much he loved football. For all of us at The Comeback, all 95,000 of us, who'll never forget it as long as we live. For those of us who still have the ticket stub from the final home game in 2007 against the Giants after which we may have told our father, "You never know dad, this may be your last Bills game. So enjoy it, regardless of the loss" only to have him respond, "true."...and hating that it was "true." ...we get 12. For her 53rd year she deserves to be the bell of the ball. She deserves a right and proper send off. She deserves to have everyone of her remaining games in 2025 start with the phrase "Home of the World Champions." She deserves another AFC championship flag waving up high. ...and she most certainly deserves her first ever Super Bowl Champion banner glaring for all to see from her top, and to go along with the silvery Lombardi trophy encased in her foyer. She deserves this as the birth place of so many of our fondest memories...for the things that happened there, and the people who were there with us. Some of whom are gone and like this concrete and steel house with the green pasture, will never be forgotten. Go Bills.

Maybe they needed a 10th pro-bowler?